Warrior Princesses Strike Back - How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal through Connectedness

• Warrior Princesses Strike Back is a hybrid activist memoir, specifically targeted for women of color who are survivors of assault, abuse, and trauma. Both authors have been lifelong advocates of Indigenous spirituality and storytelling as a means to understanding and healing the impact of trauma on marginalized communities.


• The book's primary audience also includes those interested in healing and social justice, academics in WGS or postcolonial studies, and readers interested in understanding contemporary Native American perspectives and experiences to become better allies of Indigenous movements.


• There is very little representation of Indigenous women's voices in spaces dedicated to self-help, healing, and spirituality. Despite the long tradition of appropriating "Native American" aesthetics or ideas, writers from these communities have rarely been active participants in shaping that conversation.

About the author

Sarah Eagle Heart (Waŋblí ?iná Wíŋyaŋ, Eagle Shawl Woman), Oglála Lakota, is an Emmy Award?winning social justice storyteller, entrepreneur, and philanthropic leader. Sarah cofounded Zuyá Entertainment to create multi​​platform stories based on her unique worldview infused by her Lakota culture. Ms. Eagle Heart co​​founded Return to the Heart Foundation to support innovative Indigenous women?led projects for climate justice, narrative change, civic engagement, healing, and restorative and regenerative development. Prior to this role she served as CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy. Ms. Eagle Heart holds a BS in mass communications and a BS in American Indian studies from Black Hills State University, as well as an MBA from the University of Phoenix. She is also an exclusive public speaker with the American Program Bureau. She is based in Los Angeles, California, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Emma Eagle Heart?White (Waŋblí Wíyaka Wíŋyaŋ, Eagle Feather Woman), Oglála Lakota, is a psychotherapist, life coach, survivor, and advocate. She began her career on the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin in the healing field as a youth advocate for Native American students within the public school system and continued her advocacy on behalf of Native American survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence. Today she works as a psychotherapist and recently founded Owá?te Healing and Wellness LLC, where she continues her passion for healing, advocacy, wellness, life coaching, energy work, and brainspotting therapy. She holds a BS in educational policy and community studies, as well as an interdisciplinary degree in American Indian studies from the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee. She holds an MA in counseling with a community emphasis from Lakeland University in Plymouth, Wisconsin, and is currently working toward her PsyD doctorate degree in clinical psychology.

Summary

Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery, Warrior Princesses Strike Back focuses how Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary truth and healing.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in America. Through intimate and vulnerable memoir, Lakota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart–White recount growing up on the reservation and overcoming enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a majority-white high school, and then battling bias in their professional careers. Woven throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, and perspectives on decolonial therapy. Through the lens of Indigenous activism, the Eagle Hearts explore the possibility of healing intergenerational and personal trauma by focusing on traditional strategies of reciprocity, acknowledgment, and collectivism.

Foreword

• Both digital and print ARCs available


• ARCs to sales reps, as well as select indie bookseller mailing


• Both digital and print ARCs sent to media for national print, radio, and online campaign; targeted to oulets focused on the following coverage: Native American outlets, feminist, self-help/spiritiuality, philanthropy


• Promotion on Feminist Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels


• Promotion on author's website and social media channels


• Blurbs sought from a variety of celebrities, who are all author's personal contacts, including but not limited to: John Legend, Alicia Keys, Anne Hathway, American Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Ryan Piers Williams, Piper Perabo, Mark Ruffalo


• Social media campaign, with the book promoted by prominent feminist and celebrity influencers

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Eagle Heart, Emma Eagle Heart-White
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 17.01.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781558612938
• ISBN: 978-1-55861-293-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SELF-Help / Gender & Sexuality